Connecting to the Internet

For a conventional laptop running Sugar, connecting through an access point works. (Mesh support is becoming available on more machines.) Depending upon which Jabber server you are connected to, you'll see different collections of "neighbors" in the Neighborhood View.

Getting Productive

Look Around

Help

The Activity Help is your online manual. If you have Sugar, but not on an OLPC laptop, do not be disconcerted that the manual starts with unpacking instructions for the laptop. If you are new to Sugar, working through the Activity Help is highly recommended.

A browser

The activity named Browse is supplied on XO laptops (here is the homepage at OLPC). A separate activity named Surf is supplied with Sugar on a Stick. Both are Internet browsers.

The Journal

Memorize

The game memorize is about finding matching pairs. A pair can consist of any multimedia object. At the moment these are images, sounds and text but this could be extended to animations or movie snippets as well. Which pairs do match is up to the creator of the game. Memorize is actually more than just a predefined game you can play, it allows you to create new games yourself as well. At present the home page for Memorize is with OLPC

Pippy

Downloads

Along with the applications built into Sugar there is an ever-growing array of downloadable content and built-in access to popular Web-based applications. This includes Google applications, SimCity, GCompris (a suite of award-winning educational software for children), and hundreds of other applications. There are currently thousands of software developers around the world developing content for the Sugar and OLPC .

Read an eBook

Calculate

A simple calculator.

More to explore

Have you noticed? When you are thinking how do I work this? the first place to look is the homepage of the activity. They are listed here Category:Activities. If you do not find what you need, try the developer pages - Activities - this is the same link as "Activity pages" in the navigation sidebar.

Activity Manuals and Tutorials

You will find the range of Floss Activity manuals here, look under OLPC / Sugar

Manuals in .pdf

This is a link to a .pdf manual for the Activity Record. When you click on the link you have the opportunity to download the file. Click the download link and the file will start to download. When the download is complete the file will be in your Journal. Provided you have the Activity Read successfully installed, the .pdf file will open when you click on it.

You should note that the Activity Read, is known not to work, at present, on Sugar On a Stick.

Trisquel sugar 5.0 can read .pdf files as a Booted CD or Installed from the CD to a 4GB USB